URI request length

[Rydain]

I just had to cut down a blog entry because I got a "URI request too long" error when I went to post it. This entry contained about 5K of text, which doesn't strike me as particularly huge, and I've written similarly long posts without problem in the past. Has the URI request length on Mercury been shortened? Would it be possible to lengthen it to accommodate long message board and blog posts? (I can't just upload the post as HTML because my blog is PHP/SQL-based.)

[Joshua Clinard]

Try posting again, just to see if it was a php/MySQL hiccup.

[jason]

You must be using the "GET" method to submit the form. You may want to consider using "POST" instead, as POSTed forms don't have lenght limitations. Depending on the way the software (blog and message board) you're using is set up, you may be able to change to the POST method in your forms without having to change anyhing in the software.
Just look for the <form> tags in your html and change method="GET" to method="POST".

--Jason

[Rydain]

I just checked b2's form for submitting blog entries, and it does use the POST method. I also tried making another largish test post, and it failed yet again. Thanks for the suggestion, though. Does anyone have any more ideas?

[Joshua Clinard]

I'm using b2 as well, and never had a problem, but I have never had any posts that were that large. Try asking in the b2 support forums if anyone else has experienced this. If they have, they may be able to help you diagnose the problem, and come up with a solution.

If you don't often have to post large posts, you could edit the database directly just for that post.

Or you could install wordpress, the official b2 fork, which has a feature that lets you have a small segment on the page, with a link to the rest of the article.